What are some typical injuries, and how to avoid them! (non-pitcher)

My middle one, a HS Sophomore, is just coming back form a groin/hamstring injury.  Found out that it may be linked to his left hip being slightly out of whack.  According to my buddy, who is trainer for the Rays, he says this is fairly common.  He explained that it is a result of "one-way" training,ie; if you picture a true right hander, hits right, throws right, the right side hip is exploding open and the left side is closing inward.  He gave my son some exercises  and they helped.   Some of the others are just pulled muscles and sprained ankles.  

For OF... Saw an outfielder badly break his arm diving head first for a ball a few weeks ago. The pros seem to know how to do it but it can go wrong for kids especially on poor condition fields.

2016 was at a tryout for a national travel team 3 years ago.  Stepped into the batter's box and the first darn pitch the other kid threw was a breaking ball with no break...except it hit sonny right in the jaw.  Broken in two places. He was furious but luckily it didn't need to be wired and he was playing again within a month. 

He made the team...the pitcher did not!

Make sure if you are a catcher who is asked to receive BP from coach during a tryout that you know the hitter.  Don't assume batter is talented enough to hit the ball and not you!  PopsCat had hand broken in multiple places by a hitter with happy feet who moved about a foot back in the box before swinging down on the back of his hand.  Stunk that he had to miss time on the diamond + the football field while it healed.  You can never be too careful or aware of your surroundings.

My son was playing CF and collided with the RF.  It was windy and they couldn't hear each other.  My son broke his tibia/ fibula and had to have a surgical repair.  It took him about a year to completely heal. 

The moral of the story:  Talk LOUDLY in the OF and NEVER take being healthy enough to play baseball for granted!

My son played a lot of sports before high school when he narrowed it down to baseball, soccer, rec basketball and travel baseball in the summer. 

As a preteen he played travel soccer, rec basketball, travel basketball, rec baseball and travel baseball. In middle school he played football, travel soccer, basketball, rec basketball, travel basketball, baseball and travel baseball.

Then add in all the pickup games he played in various sports.

A top sports ortho specialist told me he should be fine since he's playing various sports and not working his joints and muscles the same way all the time. The specialist (a friend of the family) x-rayed his growth plates annually through age twelve.

As a senior in high school my son fell on his shoulder requiring shoulder separation surgery. He was fortunate to have a surgeon who also operated on pro athletes. The surgeon said there was a lot of wear and tear in the shoulder that didn't look like it was from pitching. My son was mostly a relief pitcher and never overused.

My son is a very physical athlete. He pushed the limit on contact in soccer. He banged for rebounds and scrambled for loose balls in basketball. He caught in baseball until he was twelve. Then there were all the balls he dove for at short and in center in middle school and high school.

I'm not suggesting kids play less. I would let my son do it all over again the same way. But I might be a little more concerned about the wear and tear in middle school from all the activity. 

After surgery and rehab he threw harder as the surgeon suggested he might from having his shoulder tightened up. But I would never suggest going through surgery and rehab as a way for a kid to up his game. Besides, he missed senior year of soccer when the team went the furthest in states. 

My son had this same problem awhile back as well. 

My son as an 8th grader had a micro tear on his shoulder's growth plate. Kept complaining about it. Although he is a mif not a pitcher. The xray clearly showed the tear. Dr asked us to shut him down for summer/fall ball. That mended the tear.

Thank you for all the answers...especially the one way only training information, that makes total sense and was exactly the type of information I was looking for when I posted this question. 

Two secrets to avoiding injury for a non-pitcher.

If you are a hitter avoid getting hit by 90mph fastballs in delicate parts of the anatomy

• mine got hit in the wrist with one, suffered a deep bone bruise that kept him out of action for the last three months, basically, during the height of the recruiting season

If you are an outfielder do go all out to make the plays,  but avoid doing things like crashing into fences if you possibly can. 

• mine suffered a back injury due to failing to follow the above mentioned advice -- kept him out of action for a big chunk of junior varsity season. 

Those kind of injuries, unfortunately, are occupational hazards.  Not really wear and tear kind  of injuries. Though I do think the back injury would not have lingered so long or had been so severe if the kid had taken better care of his core -- which he is now doing.  He's turned into a dedicated Pilates practitioner.

To add to Slugger's post ...

Be careful a pitcher might come inside on a squeeze play. And wear a cup! I'm laughing thinking about this now. But it was serious for a few minutes at the time. One of my 16u hitters got drilled between the legs on a squeeze play. To add insult to injury the pitch was called a strike as he went forward with the bat in his panicked attempt to avoid the pitch.

My son had two surgeries that were not injuries. The were biological issues, one was an enlarged cortacoid bone (causing impingement) and the other an inflamed ulnar nerve (needed to be moved).

Injuries have included a variety of everyday stuff, as a player gets older he is more prone to injuries.

This includes every position.

The whole idea is to make sure that one stays healthy to play beyond HS.  Thats not as easy as some think!